Why Greenland?
Before Trump brought Greenland into the news with his desire to buy it, I had only known two things about that island ...
1) that Greenland was icier than Iceland and that Iceland was greener than Greenland.
2) that in 1894, arctic explorer Robert Peary "liberated" part of the Cape York meteorite from the Inuits in Greenland, selling it to New York's natural history museum (where it can still be seen) for $40,000 ...
But after watching this segment about Greenland from the PBS NewsHour, I've realized there are a lot of financial reasons why someone might be interested in Greenland. Kind of depressing, actually. In the south of the island, Chinese investors are funding mining projects to remove rare earth metals like niobium ...
... and they're also interested in Greenland's deposits of uranium. There's also iron, zinc, lead, coal, etc., mining going on there.
This probably explains Trump's interest in Greenland = China + mining ... twp of Trump's obsessions. Read more: Here’s why Trump wants to buy Greenland
1) that Greenland was icier than Iceland and that Iceland was greener than Greenland.
2) that in 1894, arctic explorer Robert Peary "liberated" part of the Cape York meteorite from the Inuits in Greenland, selling it to New York's natural history museum (where it can still be seen) for $40,000 ...
But after watching this segment about Greenland from the PBS NewsHour, I've realized there are a lot of financial reasons why someone might be interested in Greenland. Kind of depressing, actually. In the south of the island, Chinese investors are funding mining projects to remove rare earth metals like niobium ...
... and they're also interested in Greenland's deposits of uranium. There's also iron, zinc, lead, coal, etc., mining going on there.
This probably explains Trump's interest in Greenland = China + mining ... twp of Trump's obsessions. Read more: Here’s why Trump wants to buy Greenland
posted by crystal | 12:32 PM
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